Re: Fisher in Alaska
[Re: alaska viking]
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03/27/19 09:40 PM
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This is all very interesting, and like most things furbearer, anecdotal, and best-guess. One of our local biologists did necropsy on 5 local fisher. 3 females, 2 males. They were collected over the last 3 years. Of the females, 2 were juveniles, and had not been impregnated. The 3'rd had indeed given birth. One male was determined to be a juvenile, and one was an adult. Waiting on stabile isotope analysis, as to diet. They didn't do stomach content, for some reason.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
[Re: ebsurveyor]
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03/29/19 12:13 PM
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. We have lots of fisher and some marten and very very few porkies + an average of 100 inches of snow each season where I trap. It’s often stated that deep snow hinders the fisher ability to adapt to an area. It’s not actually the snow depth that hinders a fisher’s ability to use a suitable habitat, it’s the condition of the snow. No matter the depth of the snow level if it develops a suitable crust that will support fisher, within several days or so following a significant snowfall, they can establish a territory and survive reasonably well as long as a food supply is available.
The only constant in trapping is change so keep learning.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
[Re: Ryan McLeod]
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03/29/19 03:02 PM
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I just seen a picture today that was taken above my hometown of aklavik. A coyote. I knew they’d show up eventually. Picture was taken at black mountain. Not a safe place for a coyote with the wolves that are always in that area. I just saw one that came out of the Yukon that was trapped, where there is a road or rail system the coyotes will travel. Was not a pruty western soft hair type but dark haired. He did travel down with 30 wolverines in the shipment.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
[Re: Ryan McLeod]
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03/30/19 01:19 AM
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Eddy McLeod said Johnny Lennie shot a coyote below his camp back in the day.. it was eating his garbage he thought it was a wolf. So it is not a totally new thing.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
[Re: alaska viking]
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04/02/19 02:21 AM
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No matter how you look at it I would love to have the opportunity to take a fisher, it and an Arctic fox are the only two furbeaers in Ak I have yet to take and I have a son in Acric fox country now so it is a matter of timing and i will have that one off the bucket list I hope
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
[Re: joepennanti]
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04/02/19 04:13 PM
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Otterman the grass is greener... .. .
Humans want what is not readily accessible to them. Trappers down here in the L48 say "No matter how you look at it I would love to have the opportunity to take a _____" fill in the blank, any of the furbearers that you have up there that we don't have down here. I thought it would be fun to trap raccoons (which we do not have up here.) It WAS fun................... but then I tried to scrape enough fat off one to put the hide up! Now I don't think they are as much fun as I envisioned... Geesh, worse than a Kodiak fox! Pete
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
[Re: Pete in Frbks]
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04/02/19 06:50 PM
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Otterman the grass is greener... .. .
Humans want what is not readily accessible to them. Trappers down here in the L48 say "No matter how you look at it I would love to have the opportunity to take a _____" fill in the blank, any of the furbearers that you have up there that we don't have down here. I thought it would be fun to trap raccoons (which we do not have up here.) It WAS fun................... but then I tried to scrape enough fat off one to put the hide up! Now I don't think they are as much fun as I envisioned... Geesh, worse than a Kodiak fox! Pete Been there done that Pete and your right and so are you Joe. However I never had the pleasure of a possum or a skunk either but somehow i can manage to live without that pleasure
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
[Re: alaska viking]
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04/02/19 07:09 PM
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Well, I admit to the same envy, HOWEVER, I have taken Kodiak fox, coon, opossum, and even a couple skunks, (long time ago). I absolutely prefer marten, and the odd gulo, above all others!
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
[Re: Pete in Frbks]
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04/02/19 08:55 PM
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Oh yeah...............? Well I had the "top lot" coons in the ATA Auction in Fairbanks!
Maybe Daniel Boone hats are coming back into style?
(Or maybe they were the ONLY coons in the sale.....!)
Pete That would be my hunch. And a pretty clever marketing syrayegy, to boot!
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
[Re: alaska viking]
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04/03/19 12:20 AM
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There has been much said here about deep snow inhibiting feeding habits of fisher. Up in northern Mn when the winter gets very cold and or very snowy bunches of porcupines take refuge in the tamarack and cedar swamps. There are so many trees naturally uprooted in those soft soil bog swamps the porcupine hole up down in those root masses. The fisher are very good at finding them there and even in the deepest of snow they move around easily in those bottoms.
Osky
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
[Re: alaska viking]
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04/09/19 12:30 PM
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There is a thread on trap talk about fisher preying on lynx. Certainly don' t want fisher cutting into our lynx pop. MT
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
[Re: martentrapper]
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04/09/19 10:31 PM
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There is a thread on trap talk about fisher preying on lynx. Certainly don' t want fisher cutting into our lynx pop. MT Don’t have to worry about that down here, we don’t have a population of lynx or fisher. One shining statement from the fisher study done in Taku was that fisher and wolverine cannot cohabit.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
[Re: alaska viking]
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05/09/19 05:22 PM
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Fisher and wolverine co-habitate in Northern Manitoba,and a few other provinces in Canada.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
[Re: Boco]
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05/18/19 09:23 PM
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Fisher and wolverine co-habitate in Northern Manitoba,and a few other provinces in Canada. I sort of figured out that was the case here in SE AK.
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Re: Fisher in Alaska
[Re: alaska viking]
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05/19/19 09:24 AM
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Yep. I caught a fisher this year in a gulo cubbie, then a wolverine in the same set 2 weeks later.
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